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Many things are possible
Not everything.
Not paradise or perfection.
But many things.
Better things.
Clearer, deeper ways of seeing.
Richer, deeper ways of being.
Many things are possible.
Despair is a disease spread by the powerful,
like smallpox laced in a blanket,
to keep us weak, distracted, an...

Remnant
I was dreaming of her offering
of the perfume on her wrist
the sweetness and the nearness
of her skin just like a kiss
The pang as it’s withdrawn and
disappears into the mist
the yearning and the burning
to be more, much more than this
The love that outlasts love’s withering away
The l...

"In the Age of Terror/in the Age of Steel/they won't let you keep/a scrap of what's real...."
Church bells are ringing
But they’re miles away
You can hear the pan pipes
When the wind turns this way
We better keep to the shade
Until the sun goes down
And the moon unfolds
Her shining gown
The vill...

These were prisoners abandoned by guards as the flood waters rose. Some
had to break out of their own cells, with the water chest-high; others
descended to the lower levels of the jail to rescue other prisoners.
And lest Bill Bennett and his ilk think this was just a matter of hard-core criminal scum getting no better than they deserved, Rich digs out this telling quote:
"Some of these prisoners were in fact serving misdemeanor sentences,
and others were picked up for parole violations, but the vast, vast
majority of the prisoners being held at Orleans Parish Prison were
pretrial detainees. They had only been charged. They had not been tried
and convicted."

Of course, it wouldn't make any difference if they were all
hard-core convicts; the inhumanity of abandoning them to the flood
would be just as egregious. But we'll certainly keep tracking this
story as it develops.
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